![]() ![]() Honestly, I find myself thinking about her as if she is a real person I can talk to and get to know. She’s angry and possessed of charm and brilliance. The narrator is Lenù and much as I love her, it is really Lila who makes the pages come alive. The city is part of why they are who they are. ![]() ![]() I can’t imagine these stories, these characters living anywhere else. They are not called the Neapolitan novels in the abstract. ![]() Naples plays a huge role and you get a sense of how turbulent and varies this Italian city is. The author explores marriage, motherhood, career choices through the main characters and even minor characters. Driven by fierce ambitions, the culture of their neighborhood, and each other, they battle and love. They have the kind of tumultuous, lifelong friendship many women can relate to. Elena Ferrante has written books for the ages. Book 3 (“Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”) is my favorite of the four- bad choices and consequences dominate. And then, somewhere in Book 2 (‘The Story of A New Name”), I feel in book love. I earnestly struggled with Book 1 of the series, which details the younger years of these two passionate, brave, deeply weird women. I’m overwhelmed by how much I love these four books- the Neapolitan series. ![]()
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